It was great to be back at Breathing Space in Witton Gilbert this week, this time running a ‘Found Poetry’ workshop.
Found poetry is the art of taking a piece of text, and searching for a poem or sentiment within. Once this has been found, we then illustrate the poem, using drawing, paints, collage, rubber stamps, whatever works best for you.
A wonderful selection of poems and illustrations were made on this workshop, thanks so much to everyone who came along.
Lots more wonderful Christmas tree ornaments made on today’s workshop at Newbrough Town Hall as part of Highlights Rural Touring. It was a lovely group and a very enjoyable morning with everyone. Have a scroll through the ornaments and you’ll see how well everyone took to the methods and created beautiful pieces. Fabulous work, everyone!…
Yesterday I had two lovely beginner lino printers on my introduction to lino printing workshop, who as you can see, created beautiful lino prints! We started off the day by going through the tools and materials, and then worked on a test piece of lino, just to get used to using the tools and trying…
I was thrilled to be asked back to Breathing Space in Witton Gilbert in order to run a six week course on Celtic knotwork drawing. We started off this first week learning how to create a plain knot. Once everyone had learned the basics, they were free to play and create knots of their own,…
On Monday I taught a lovely art group who meet just around the corner from me in Annfield Plain. I showed everyone how to do simple white line lino carving and then how to print out their carvings using both plain and gradient colours. As you can see from the photos, they all took to…
Shown above are 13 fabulous double sided Christmas ornaments that were made on the first of my Christmas workshops for Highlights Rural Touring! These were all made by a lovely group at Gleaston Village Hall in south Cumbria yesterday, and as you can see, everyone took so well to the process and made the ornaments…
I had a lovely couple book a bespoke workshop with me today to celebrate their copper wedding anniversary. We work in copper to create these metal embossed plaques, so it was perfect for them! Obviously they did not need two house numbers, so one created the house number and the other created a plaque featuring…
